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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
MiniTel to go Dark on June 30
Ars Technica reports on the closure of Minitel, the popular French precursor to the Internet, on June 30. Apparently it is still is profitable to French Telecom...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Area 51
Complexity Theory Conspiracy Theories Graham Steel is a member of Team Prosecco at INRIA Paris-Roquencourt in France. He along with Romain Bardou of the related...
From Schneier on Security
Nuclear Fears
Interesting review -- by David Roepik -- of The Rise of Nuclear Fear, by Spencer Weart: Along with contributing to the birth of the environmental movement, Weart...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Reinventing Itself
Suggestion that Microsoft is in the midst of reinventing itself, with Windows 8 and more. In particular the fact that smartphones will increasingly become our...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inserting Your Thoughts Anywhere in 3D
In FastCompany: This general idea has been around for some time, but it has never been implemented well. Consider the advertising implications." ... Itching to...
From Putting People First
Dr Paul Bernal on the right to be forgotten
What is the right to be forgotten? How could it work
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research in a world of big data
In her final piece on ethnographic research in a world of big data (see earlier posts), Jenna Burrell, sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surveying the Marketing Industry
In Analytics Magazine from Informs: IBM surveys the marketing industry, providing some interesting statistics about the relationship of IT and marketing needs....
From Wild WebMink
Google Uses Famous Users As G+ Test Team
The Google Plus team turned on a new feature today while it was being announced at Google IO in San Francisco. Google+ Events is a new feature that integrates Google...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Modeling Effective CS Professional Development
Last month, the National Science Foundation sponsored a workshop on creating high-impact professional development experiences for K-12 computer science teachers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Individual Price Tags Disappearing
In the state of Massachussets, individual price tags may no longer be required on store items, if a new bill is passed. Replaced by individual digital scanners...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Root
Always interested in new ways to make complex data, processes, sensors and their interrelationships as clear as possible to the decision makers. And make theHere...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Meet the High School Girls Who Had to Take CS
There's an article from Betabeat making its rounds in the women in tech community: Eight Real Tales of Learning Computer Science as a High School Girl. I found...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Retail
Mobile is changing retail at a remarkable speed. We saw the implications of this very early on, before the smartphone. A text based phone like the Blackberry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting Predictive Analytics to Work
Good Computerworld article. Emphasizing that it does not require a big budget, but does require business understanding and sponsors to agree that this is a priority...
From Computational Complexity
Transitions
On July 1 I officially move jobs from Northwestern to Georgia Tech, a change not just in location but in role as I become a department chair. I'm proud by what...
From Schneier on Security
Top Secret America on the Post-9/11 Cycle of Fear and Funding
I'm reading Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin. Both work for The Washington Post. The book...
From Schneier on Security